The city is unraveling. And a power older than the Sovereign is waking.

Ellie returns to Busal expecting respite. Instead, she finds a city coming apart at the seams—people vanishing without a trace, eerie zones where sound and light fail, and a creeping wrongness no one can explain. Even the energy woven into the city’s foundation—the very fabric of its protections—is shifting.

The Servants are no longer hiding. Their agents burn knowledge from the archives and hunt those who remember. As the strange “Empty Places” grow, Ellie races to understand a pattern that dates back centuries—one that marks where the world itself begins to thin.

To protect her home, Ellie must wield both the calculated discipline of her Blade ability and the volatile fire of the Kindling. But the deeper she digs, the more she begins to understand: Busal was never as secure as it seemed. The seals are breaking. The past is bleeding through.

And in the silence beneath the stones… something is stirring.

Ancient protections are failing. The Servants are advancing. And Ellie may be the only one who can hold the deep at bay.

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